Nick Hornby

A gifted cinematic presence since her Oscar-nominated "Atonement" debut at age 12, Saoirse Ronan has played everything from a young assassin raised among wolves in "Hanna" to a resident of "Grand Budapest Hotel's" imaginary Zubrowka. But "Brooklyn," her new film debuting Monday in the Premiers section at Sundance, was something different. "Playing someone normal was the biggest challenge," the now 20-year-old actress says. "I wasn't used to it." Ronan in person is warm, lively and aware, the kind of can-do individual who will jump up to get a waitress herself if service in a restaurant isn't what it should be....

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